Lawson Software inks deal with Turnpoint Solutions

Turnpoint Solutions consultants deliver business consulting and IT projects in major process areas such as asset management, mobile work management and business performance management.

Its focus is on asset intensive industries and its portfolio includes customers from a range of companies, including mining, utility and transportation organisations.

"We're very excited about this partnership as it will help make it simpler for our customers in Australia and New Zealand to select and implement new solutions utilising the combination of Lawson enterprise software solutions and Turnpoint Solutions' services," said David Hope, vice president and regional director, Lawson Software, APAC. 

"Our teams will join together to provide a combination of industry best practice knowledge, software and IT systems domain expertise to help develop and deliver comprehensive program management, process improvement consulting, systems implementation and integration services programs to customers."

Turnpoint Solutions will work alongside Lawson to provide services and program offerings in three main areas including process alignment and business case development, project management and Lawson implementations.

The two companies will analyse customers' current business processes and design efficient processes based on industry best practices.

 It will review current systems and technologies to determine capacity to support improvements and develop a business case based on leveraging existing investments in infrastructure and deploying new technologies, such as Lawson applications, to help companies gauge their return on investment.

Consultants will also work together to develop a roadmap for process improvement to include project and resource plans and a change management program.

In the third key area of Lawson implementations, Turnpoint Solutions consultants will provide customers with Lawson M3 application implementation knowledge combined with process and best practice experience.

"Our consultants will work closely with Lawson's customers at both executive and management levels to help make sure their business strategies are mapped clearly to technology investments that underpin business process change," said Adrian Hale, managing director Turnpoint.

"This will help make sure their investments in software and IT provides a measurable return on investment, as well as competitive advantage."